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It’s going to cost taxpayers a pretty penny to study rerouting 1,000 feet of trail near Fairfax, and at least one county supervisor isn’t smiling. The Board of Supervisors has hired consultant Amy Skews-Cox of Ross for $45,152 to c...

The Tam Union School Board meets to establish a timeline to search for a new superintendent, identify groups and people to give feedback on the new supe’s desired characteristics. 6 p.m., Room 182, Redwood High School, Larkspur. Follow @jmara f...

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Sports

The ongoing drought is likely to have heavy impacts on Central Valley watersheds and its fish populations. However, the outstanding ongoing fishing for striped bass gives fishermen an easy place to cast a line and forget our water-related problems for at least a morning. At Loch Lomond Bait Shop, owner Keith Fraser says fishing for striped bass hasn’t been this good in at least 20 years — and especially not in mid-winter, when striped bass are usually absent from the...

|4 days ago

Basketball

Middletown >> The Marin Catholic High girls basketball team got hot in the fourth quarter to erase a 12-point deficit en route to beating ninth-seeded Middletown 68-59 during the North Coast Section Division IV playoff opener on Wednesday. Sara Young led the charge for the eighth-seeded Wildcats with 20 points, 13 of which came in the final quarter including hitting three long-range 3-pointers to go with her four steals. She also had seven rebounds and seven steals. The...

Prep Sports

Drake High’s Jesse Hunt and Justin-Siena’s Morgan Malloy were named the MCAL basketball players of the year. Hunt helped lead the Drake boys to their first MCAL tournament title since 1996 and Malloy was key for the Justin-Siena girls in winning their second consecutive MCAL tournament title. For the boys, Marin Catholic’s Charlie Duysen and Joey Calcaterra, San Marin’s Calvin Geraci, Drake’s Malik Huff and Redwood’s Will Breck made the...

Marin Independent Journal
|5 days ago

Environment

SACRAMENTO >> A trade group has turned in enough signatures to put a referendum on California’s plastic bag ban on the November 2016 ballot, suspending implementation of the nation’s first statewide ban until voters can weigh in, state elections officials said Tuesday. Advocates of the bag ban in Marin, however, took the news in stride. “I’m encouraged that almost all of Marin’s municipalities have enacted their own ordinances so those...

Staff and wire report
|6 days ago

Basketball

Jesse Hunt had 13 points and 11 rebounds and the Drake High boys basketball team used a 24-2 run in the first quarter to blow the game open against Sonoma Valley on Tuesday. James Hamilton added 12 points on 4-for-4 shooting as the Pirates cruised to a 72-33 victory at home in the first round of the North Coast Section Division III playoffs. Malik Huff added nine points on three 3-pointers for No. 3 Drake (25-4), which faces No. 6 Encinal (19-11) at home in the quarterfinals on...

Marin Independent Journal
|6 days ago

Sports

The College of Marin baseball team’s attempt at a Bay Valley Conference title three-peat got off to a good start as the Mariners scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to see off Yuba, 10-8, in Tuesday’s league opener at home. COM (7-5-1, 1-0) held an 8-4 lead but Yuba climbed back into the game with some runs in the seventh and eighth innings. With the game tied, Richard Herrada delivered an RBI double to put COM ahead for good. Former San Marin...